F & E Stoneham, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No edition stated. 500 pages. No dust jacket. Quarter bound green cloth with red cloth spine and gilt titles to front and spine. Illustrated by "Phiz". Upper text block edge gilt. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Foxing more noticeable towards the start and end of the book. Ex libris plate to front pastedown. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. pp263-266 loose. Text block heavily foxed and its edges are uneven. Many dog-eared corners. Boards have some edge wear, with moderate bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are slightly crushed and frayed. Rather scratched, rubbed and marked overall. A few liquid droplet marks. Book has a pronounced forward lean. Spine is slightly sunned.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1646336702ANA
Title: Lewis Arundel; or, The Railroad of Life
Author: Frank E Smedley
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: F & E Stoneham

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Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...